I heard about this online comment (tweet?) and have been sniggering over it since.
One of my favourite cartoons is as medieaval image of a man hopping beside a big puddle saying ‘ Mr Bogman please give me back my shoe!’. This is a similar mindset.
The words are addressed to as month, or season. It is accusing this non-thing of being in a human state, so both nonsense, and yet in a world where everything is alive and interconnected, it makes perfect sense.
We expect to be logical because our brave new world is based on it. But our minds and bodies are still those of cave people. And they are still very, very funny.
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